Sequels: Spies' Demise

Two men were convicted by a Newark, N.J., federal court jury early this month for spying
for the Soviet Union. One man was a Soviet national named Igor Ivanov, who was working
in the U.S. for Amtorg, the Russian trade agency. The other man was an
American-born engineer, John W. Butenko. 39, who had been working on
highly classified electronic equipment for the International Telephone
& Telegraph Corp. FBI agents had trailed Butenko and Ivanov for six
months and in October 1963 had arrested the two in the company of two
Soviet diplomats. In the Russians' car,...